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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
St. Lucia: Technical Assistance Report-External Sector Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
A remote technical assistance (TA) mission on external sector statistics (ESS) was conducted for the Central Statistical Office (CSO) of Saint Lucia during March 22–26, 2021. The mission was part of the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) work program on External Sector Statistics (ESS).
Keywords:
IMF's Statistics Department; World Bank staff; balance of payments manual; balance of payments survey data; instrumentalities of the TA recipient; Civil society organizations; External sector statistics; Exports; Balance of payments statistics; Caribbean
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Governance for Inclusive Growth
Maksym Ivanyna and Andrea Salerno
The government’s ability to deliver inclusive growth crucially depends on the quality of governance. This paper reviews the linkages between governance and inclusive growth, and key policies to improve governance. The policies include (1) structural reform, automation, improving rules and procedures (including for fiscal and monetary policies) to limit the discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption frameworks to incentivize public officials to make decisions in the best public interest; and (3) transparency, accountability, and inclusive political institutions to inform and monitor policymaking.
Keywords:
policy advice; poor governance; government discretion; central bank; government regulation; Corruption; Inclusive growth; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Civil society; Tax evasion; Global
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Zambia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Government Finance Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
In response to a request from the authorities and as part of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative (EDDI) 2 project, a Government Finance Statistics (GFS) mission visited Lusaka, Zambia, during November 19–30, 2018. This was the third mission to Zambia under the DFID EDDI2 project, following the March 2016 and November 2017 missions. The mission worked essentially with staff at the Zambia Central Statistical Office (CSO) Public Finance Unit (PFU), but also had meetings with staff from the Ministry of Finance’s Accountant General, Budget, Investment and Debt Management, and Economic Management departments.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; statement of operation; GFS statement; compilation file; GFS compilation; classification assistant; public finance; Government finance statistics; Business enterprises; Financial statements; Data collection; Civil society organizations
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St. Lucia Technical Assistance Report—Rebasing GDP Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
A technical assistance mission was undertaken by the Real Sector Statistics Advisor in the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre to Saint Lucia to provide advice to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on compiling rebased gross domestic product estimates. The CSO is responding to the needs of the Ministry of Finance for more robust and timely national accounts statistics. All the Gross domestic product by economic activity (GDP-P) compilation workbooks have now been redeveloped and revised current and constant 2018 price quarterly and annual estimates have been compiled up to Q3 2019. The incorporation of revised data on tourist expenditure for 2000 onward have also resulted in revisions to the GDP-P current rice estimates and real growth rates. The revised annual and quarterly GDP-P estimates were assessed, and several methodological improvements were implemented. Improvements were made to the constant price estimates by reviewing and replacing weaker volume indicators. Training on the methodological changes and compiling the rebased estimates has been provided. The training on methodological improvements included the use of the more representative employment indicators and various price indices discussed above; back-casting and linking techniques for the current price estimates and linking the constant 2006 price series with the constant 2018 price series.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; GDP; GDP-p estimate; current price; estimate; compilation workbook; compilation methodology; GDP-P estimate; output price indices; GDP estimate; price index weight; GDP series; Price indexes; Civil society organizations; Credit bureaus; Consumer price indexes; Caribbean